CECO Environmental Corp. (NASDAQ:CECE) Files An 8-K Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of AssetsItem 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
On October24, 2018, CECO Environmental Corp. (the “Company”), through two of its subsidiaries (“Seller”), and Jiangsu Zhongli Environmental Technology Co., Ltd (the “Purchaser”) entered into a purchase and sale agreement (the “Agreement”). to the terms of the Agreement, the Purchaser has agreed to acquire the Company’s Zhongli business (the “Zhongli Business”). The closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the next 90 days, subject to customer closing conditions and Chinese regulatory approvals.
As a result of the Company’s entry into the Agreement, under United States generally accepted accounting principles, the Zhongli Business will be classified as “held for sale” in our third quarter financial statements. Accordingly, the Company will be required to record the assets related to the Zhongli Business at fair value, less an amount of estimated sale costs. The Company currently estimates that recording the assets related to the Zhongli Business at fair value will result in a charge of approximately $15 million in the third quarter.
About CECO Environmental Corp. (NASDAQ:CECE)
CECO Environmental Corp. is a provider of engineered technologies to the environmental, energy, and fluid handling and filtration industrial segments. The Company focuses on engineering, designing, building and installing systems that capture, clean and destroy airborne contaminants from industrial facilities, as well as equipment that controls emissions from such facilities, and fluid handling and filtration systems. It operates through three segments: Environmental, which produces various types of product recovery and air pollution control technologies; Energy, which produces customized solutions for the power and petrochemical industry, and Fluid Handling and Filtration, which produces pump, filtration and fume exhaust solutions. It offers products and services, such as dampers and diverters, cyclonic technology, thermal oxidizers, filtration systems, scrubbers, fluid handling equipment, and plant engineering services and engineered design build fabrication.
